found an old article about him. i had no idea he was a big-time environmentalist supporter.
Does Paulson represent you?
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Posted: June 6, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
By Joseph Farah
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© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
It's official.
The Bush administration is not about representing you, me and other average American taxpayers and citizens.
It is instead about representing wealth, privilege, multinational corporations, oppressive and tyrannical foreign regimes and the kind of misguided "globalism" that brought us the illegal-immigration crisis – the No. 1 threat to our domestic tranquility, freedom and sovereignty.
I say it's official because of the nomination by President Bush of Henry M. Paulson as Treasury secretary. The late comedian Pat Paulsen would have been a better appointment.
What's wrong with this Paulson?
He is a near billionaire and chairman of Goldman Sachs, hardly the kind of credentials that permit him to be in touch with the heartbeat of the average American.
He comes to the job, according to all accounts, with the idea of battling "protectionism." Translation? He's not there to protect the interests of American citizens and American workers and American sovereignty.
He boasts of visiting China more than 70 times since 1990. But he has not visited the gulags. He has not visited the peasants of that Stalinist state. He has not visited the dissidents and the political prisoners or the slave labor camps. He has, instead, visited the fascistic rulers in Beijing. He's made deals with them. He's in bed with them.
"He knows the Chinese leaders, he knows how the economy works, he knows of the benefits for American companies operating in China, and he knows about the competitive challenges," explains Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman Sachs.
In fact, Bush wooed Paulson for the job by inviting him to tea with Chinese tyrant Hu Jintao in April. Here's the way the New York Times phrased it: "Perhaps no Treasury secretary would bring closer ties to China than Paulson would."
Paulson is also a major donor and supporter for wacko environmentalists. He gave $100,000 to the League of Conservation Voters since 1999. In 2004, the group actively supported John Kerry for president. His wife gave $900,000 to the group, according to Federal Election Commission and Internal Revenue Service records.
He believes in global warming and that human activities are responsible, calling it "one of the most significant environmental challenges of the 21st century."
The New York Times reports: "Paulson would bring some divergent views to the administration, including support for more aggressive action on global warming than Bush has supported."
This is the guy, Bush told us, who would serve as his "principal adviser on the broad range of domestic and international economic issues that affect the well-being of all Americans."
Do you think he will represent you?
He has also served as chairman of the Nature Conservancy, which is under investigation for financial misdealings that benefited its officers and donors. The group has also, more importantly, worked feverishly to turn millions of acres of productive private land into federally owned land – and make huge profits doing it.
"The Nature Conservancy is one of the most feared environmental groups throughout rural America," explains R.J. Smith of the Competitive Enterprise Institute. "While promoting itself as a 'private' conservation group, small landowners, family farmers, ranchers and tree farmers know it as a strong-arm real estate agent for the federal government. It acquires land at fire-sale prices from landowners bankrupted by environmental regulations, then turns around and sells most of it to the federal government at inflated prices. The last thing America needs is more range and forest land for the federal government to mismanage and burn down."
Think eminent domain on steroids.
Think another big betrayal of the people's trust.
Think sellout of the Constitution.
Think catering to power rather than truth.
That's what the nomination of Paulson represents.